How are Philosophy and Religion different?
I understand that religion tends to explain otherwise unanswerable questions using their beliefs, and that Philosophy generally just studies unanswerable questions…. But this doesn’t really explain how they differ exactly.
Can anyone help me?
Tags: different, Philosophy, Religion
June 25th, 2010 at 4:03 am
philosophy is thinking of what path to take. religion is walking that path faithfully.
June 25th, 2010 at 4:38 am
Philosophy is about understanding and searching for truth whereas religion is a system of belief based on a chosen philosophy
June 25th, 2010 at 4:48 am
I don”t see Philosophy as you do. I see Philosophy as the search for meanings.God is to science a cause, to philosophy an idea, to religion a person, even the loving heavenly Father. God is to the scientist a primal force, to the philosopher a hypothesis of unity, to the religionist a living spiritual experience.
June 25th, 2010 at 5:18 am
Philosophy involves gathering facts, then looking for some conclusions. Religion nowadays is taking the conclusion and then seeing what facts we can find to support it.
June 25th, 2010 at 6:18 am
My sense is that philosophy seeks to learn truths by reason and logic. Religion seeks to control behavior by indoctrination, using either fear of eternal agony or the lure of eternal happiness, or both.
June 25th, 2010 at 6:22 am
…religion has a supreme power, to believe in…
…philosophy…believe in me, myself and i…
…to make it in this world…good luck…
June 25th, 2010 at 6:55 am
That”s a fair question. And to answer it we”ll have to consider what philosophy and religion ARE.
The simple definition I use for philosophy is an attempt to get at the truth by using reason and making as few leaps of faith as possible. All the sciences eventually came from physical inquiry… what is left of philosophy tends to consider things science CAN”T look into or whether the scientific view itself isn”t perhaps assuming too much.
Religion is also an attempt to get at the truth, but its primary means of investigation is revelation and faith. In those latter senses some religions are almost the opposite of philosophy in that you are not supposed to question and reason at all. To be fair, there are also religions who believe in investigating the world or yourself, even in a scientific manner, as a means of developing faith in the Divine… but even then we”re back to the earlier formulation.
Both may seem to tackle unanswerable questions, but maybe that is just because both are trying to answer EVERY question. Even science doesn”t try that!
June 25th, 2010 at 7:23 am
Philosophy is the love of knowledge.
Religion is the lack of it.
June 25th, 2010 at 7:33 am
Philosophy insinuates ideas that are worth exploring further. Religion suggests fairy tales and make-believe.
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